Book Review: Ruth Downie’s Tabula Rasa
An intricate scheme involving slavery, changed identities, and fur trappers emerges in the midst of disappearances, as Ruso and Tilla struggle to keep the peace.
Author: Ruth Downie
Book Review: Ruth Downie’s Caveat Emptor
The corruption and treachery of Roman-occupied Britain closes in on the newly wed Gaius Petreius Ruso.
Book Review: Ruth Downie’s Persona Non Grata
Gaius Petreius Ruso’s family is in trouble, and Ruso rushes home to Gaul with Tilla only to find that no one wrote him. Then Severus, the family’s chief creditor, winds up dead, and the real trouble begins…
Book Review: Ruth Downie’s Terra Incognita
Gaius Petreius Ruso has volunteered for a posting with the army even deeper into Britannia. Only it’s in Tilla’s homeland where her people are implicated in a grisly murder.
Book Review: Ruth Downie’s Medicus
Divorced and down-on his luck, Gaius Petrius Ruso is an army doctor who intends to seek his fortune in an inclement outpost of the Roman Empire, namely Britannia. Then he rescues an injured slave girl, Tilla and gets caught up in the investigation into the deaths of prostitutes working out of the local bar.